Kingsley Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Tower Hamlets local planning authority area, England. Hall.

Kingsley Hall

WRENN ID
swift-newel-foxglove
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Tower Hamlets
Constituency
Stratford and Bow MP: Uma Kumaran (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Hall
Address
Kingsley Hall, Powis Road E3
OS grid reference
TQ 378 827
Coordinates
51.52665, -0.01433
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Kingsley Hall, built around 1928, was designed by architect Charles Cowles-Voysey. The building features red brick with a blue brick ground floor and a rendered coved cornice. It has an irregular shape and facade, standing four storeys tall with a three-bay facade that includes a slightly recessed northern one-bay tower. The entrance consists of double doors flanked by narrow windows, all beneath a flat hood. Above this, there are three small windows below an iron balcony supported by corbels, which overlooks three large round-arched windows. The top floor has a band of smaller windows situated below the eaves. A plaque on the building notes that Mahatma Gandhi stayed here in 1931. The interior is notable for its vaulted ceilings above the windows and a stained glass window created by Belgian artist Eugene Yoors, dedicated to George Lansbury.

Local climate

Kingsley Hall sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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